Our Insights Defensible AI Document Review Isn't Bought. It's Staffed. Posted in Your review platform now has a generative AI feature. Someone on your team has probably already asked whether you can defend using it. The early answer is yes - with conditions attached. Courts are less interested in how the model works than in [...]
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Our Insights Why We Don't Sell Tech: The Case for Tech-Agnostic Review Posted in The legal industry is in the middle of a loud conversation about AI in document review. Vendors are racing to release new platforms, bundle their own tech, and position themselves as one-stop shops. It's a reasonable business strategy. It's just not [...]
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Our Insights What's Actually Hiding in Your Target's Contracts Posted in Every M&A deal has a moment of reckoning. The letter of intent is signed, the data room opens, and suddenly your team is staring at hundreds of customer agreements that need to be reviewed before the exclusivity window closes. The deal is real now, [...]
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Our Insights Scaling Legal Support for Tech Companies Posted in Technology moves fast, but legal hiring doesn't. By the time you've identified a need, posted a job, interviewed candidates, and onboarded new counsel, your product roadmap has probably shifted twice and new regulations have emerged in three different jurisdictions. This mismatch between tech's pace and [...]
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Our Insights What 2026 Legal Hiring Data Says About Flexible Counsel Posted in If you're a general counsel or head of legal operations watching the 2026 hiring market, you're seeing a story that doesn't quite match the old playbook. The work is rising while budgets tighten, and headcount approvals aren't coming through the way they [...]
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Our Insights What Vendor-Neutrality Means in Contract AI Posted in The contract AI market is moving fast, and for General Counsel and legal operations teams facing a multi-year platform commitment, outside expertise can be genuinely useful. The more important question is what kind of expertise, and how the advisor gets paid. Choosing a vendor-neutral contract [...]
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Our Insights Legal Work Comes in Waves. Your Staffing Plan Should Too. Posted in Every in-house team knows the rhythm. There are quiet stretches where the work is finally under control, and then there is the week a deal moves to signing, a regulator sends a request, a colleague goes out on leave, and the [...]
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Our Insights Before You Buy Contract AI, Check What You Already Own Posted in Here's a conversation that comes up a lot with legal ops teams. They're evaluating contract AI platforms, the demos are booked, the budget talk has started, and then someone realizes the organization already has a contract AI capability sitting somewhere. Perhaps [...]
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Our Insights The Golden Data Model Behind Contract AI Success Posted in If you've rolled out a CLM or a contract AI tool and the results haven't quite lived up to the pitch, you're far from alone. The platform worked the way it was supposed to. The contracts got uploaded. The extraction ran. And yet [...]
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Our Insights Fractional or Interim Counsel? How to Pick the Right Fit Posted in The language around flexible legal talent has gotten muddy. "Fractional GC," "interim counsel," "on-demand lawyer," "embedded attorney" — these terms get used interchangeably in pitches, on LinkedIn, and even in some legal industry publications. For in-house teams trying to solve real [...]
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